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2025 Landscape Institute Awards

by Andy Smith | 19th May 2025 | Institute News | 0 Comments

The Landscape Institute (LI) Awards demonstrate the vital contribution that professionals across the sector make in addressing societal challenges in climate, nature, and health and wellbeing. There are opportunities to enter for both members and non-members of the LI...

Sarah Simpson is the 2025 Young Horticulturist of the Year!

by Andy Smith | 15th May 2025 | Institute News | 0 Comments

Saturday 10th May, Historic Royal Palaces Hillsborough Castle and Garden, glorious sunshine and the Young Horticulturist of the Year 2025 Grand Final! Hillsborough Castle, County Down, Northern Ireland is the official home of the Secretary of State for Northern...

World Therapeutic Horticulture Day 2025

by Andy Smith | 14th May 2025 | Institute News | 0 Comments

On May 18, 2025, we celebrate World Therapeutic Horticulture Day (WTHD), a global movement championing the power of plants in improving mental and physical well-being. With a growing number of Chartered Institute of Horticulture members actively engaged in Social and...

HTA Grower of the Year Award

by Matthew Bettison | 7th May 2025 | Institute News | 0 Comments

Where would garden designers, landscape architects and landscapers be without fantastic plants and the brilliant nurseries who grow them? If you are a retailer, landscaper, garden designer or landscape architect you must have a favourite nursery or grower, so why not...

UK Government invests more than £45 million in ground-breaking technologies to boost Britain’s food security

by Matthew Bettison | 7th May 2025 | Institute News | 0 Comments

DEFRA announced £45 million in new grants to drive and develop innovative technologies on farms. From 28 April, applications will open for the brand-new Accelerating Development of Practices and Technologies (ADOPT) competition, which will commit up to £20.6...

Survey reveals insights into skin cancer in the horticulture workforce

by Matthew Bettison | 6th May 2025 | Institute News | 0 Comments

12% of survey respondents had been diagnosed with some form of skin cancer, according to a survey performed by the Chartered Institute of Horticulture and Plant Network looking at awareness of skin cancer and attitudes to sun-safety from those working in the...